DVD
Miracle in Milan = Miracolo a Milano
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In Italian, with English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena, Alba Arnova.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
"Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds works together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it's up to the cherubic orphan Totò--with some divine help--to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his own novel, craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people"--Container.
Notes
Based on the novel "Toto il buono" by Cesare Zavattini.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new interview with neorealism expert and film scholar David Forgacs ; audio interview from the late 1960s in which director Vittorio De Sica looks back on his career, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann ; interviews with actor Brunella Bovo and Manuel De Sica, the director's son ; feature-length documentary from 2019 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini ; trailers ; new English subtitle translation.